September 20

September 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ Joyce Brothers (born 20 September 1928)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. ~ Leo Strauss
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2017


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
May I remind you that it does NOT say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty! ~ (Cher Horowitz, "Clueless")
 * 4 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.
 * 1 per Kalki. Besides that, I have no idea in what context this quote was said. --Aphaia 07:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~ Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 because I don't particularly think quotes that mention sex appeal would make a good QOTD. Zarbon 23:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you...we give everything. ~ William Kapell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

...no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint. ~ Leo Strauss
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC) --palatable or not, it is something which has to considered.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies. ~ George R. R. Martin
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 11:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real... for a moment at least... that long magic moment before we wake. ~ George R. R. Martin
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free! ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 05:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity; he saw this event as the act of an individual intelligence. … The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)